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p_ingyesterday at 12:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

.NET Framework needs its own runtime. Java needs its own runtime.

What's the issue?


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voidUpdateyesterday at 1:12 PM

I have no issue with user-facing applications doing whatever they want, electron apps bundle an entire chromium to do their thing, but there's a win32 and win64 api in C for a reason, to make OS level stuff fast

jamesnordenyesterday at 2:14 PM

I wouldn't want my start menu to load the entire Java runtime before opening, that's the issue at hand.